JESUIT JOURNAL
The Jesuit Dallas Art Magazine
Sebastian Esquivel
Joey Trigiani
Winter 2021
Freddy Bowhill
Henry Hallam
Charlie Schwartz
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table of contents Freddy Bowhill ’21 4 Joey Trigiani ’22 8 Imjai Utailawon ’22 12 Ryan Fleming ’22 16 Will Rudnicki ’21 18 Sam Levis ’21 19 Campbell Almond ’22 20 Jon Noquil ’23 22 Peter Loh ’24 23 Sebastian Esquivel ’23 24 The Jesuit Journal aims to provide students interested in writing and visual art with a space to showcase their artistic talents. This issue displays works entered in the publication’s annual Fall Art Contest; additionally, the last section of the magazine features student doodles created during last semester’s Fine Arts prayer service. The artwork on the back cover of this issue is one of these drawings.
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26 Charlie Schwartz ’24 28 Jordi Reig ’21 29 Nahum Najera ’22 30 Henry Hallam ’21 31
Victor Martinez ’22
32 Matthew Dietsch ’23 32 Bryce Mendenhall ’22 32 Hernan Consuelo ’23 33 Michael Dao ’21 34 Doodles: Praying through Art
JESUIT JOURNAL
Editors
Nick Evanich ’22 and Luke McCready ’22
Moderator
Ian Berry ’07
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FREDDY BOWHILL Class of 2021
First Place
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“I have lived in a family full of creatives; for example, my dad is a fashion designer, both my grandmas are artists, and my grandfather, an architect. Through this upbringing, I have naturally looked at colors, shapes, light bouncing off of different edges, dramatic lines, etc. Ever since I was small, I have been fascinated by how things looked, and as a result, I get inspired by anything and everything around me, such as maybe a glint of blue off someone’s cheek, or maybe a red in the bright blue sky. I also get inspired by many other artists. I feel the art community is one big open society that everyone learns from each other; one artist may never speak to the other, yet their paintings look similar; that is how the community grows.” 5
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“My portraits are abstract and different, using very unconventional colors for different areas. I myself am unconventional and different, especially from my Jesuit brothers. I can sometimes feel slightly odd or divergent, and I show that through my portraits, I never want any of my art to be normal, conventional, or in other words BORING! I cannot create something that does not catch someone’s eye. I want people to recognize their individuality, and that is what I put in my portraits.” 7
JOEY TRIGIANI Class of 2022
Second Place
“Emmitt was my twenty-first dog portrait. I really enjoy these, because they allow me to try to capture the personality of the animal. These paintings are also special to me because of the emotion they deliver the owner.”
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IMJAI UTAILAWON Class of 2022
Third Place 12 Jesuit Journal, Winter 2021
What was the inspiration? I was shown the reference picture of Flo’s Cafe from Cars on September 3, 2020, by a friend. I started working on it during that weekend, making slow progress throughout the months, then finished on November 23, 2020. Overall time I worked on it was probably twenty hours. It started off as a fun little practice to work on color blending, light and shadow contrast, geometric shapes, and inorganic backgrounds, and it was great practice and an eye opener. 13
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RYAN FLEMING Class of 2022
Honorable Mention
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Will Rudnicki Class of 2021
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Sam Levis Class of 2021
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Campbell Almond Class of 2022
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Jon Noquil Class of 2023
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Peter Loh Class of 2024
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Sebastian Esquivel Class of 2023
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Charlie Schwartz Class of 2024
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Jordi Reig Class of 2021
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Nahum Najera Class of 2022
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Henry Hallam Class of 2021
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Victor Martinez Class of 2022
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Matthew Dietsch Class of 2023
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Bryce Mendenhall
Hernan Consuelo
Class of 2022
Class of 2023
Michael Dao Class of 2021
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DOODLES In the fall of 2020, the Fine Arts department led a prayer service including the reflections of three artists. As students listened, they were encouraged to doodle in response, adding their own meaning in lead and ink. Some students handed in their drawings at the end of the prayer service; others, like the artist whose work appears on the back cover of this issue, took them home to complete. The Journal has published a selection of these doodles in the pages that follow. Some are meditative, elaborate, beautiful. Others make a statement. A few are seemingly mindless fun. (Opposite: The doodle of Nick Evanich ’22 experiments with water and ink).
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